Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
4245
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/10/1971
Date of Amendment
26/06/1998
Name of Property
Yr Hen Gapel at Plas yn Rhiw
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Aberdaron
Town
Pwllheli
Locality
Rhiw Plas
Easting
223631
Northing
328252
Street Side
Location
Situated on W side of lane from Plas-yn-Rhiw to Rhiw church, just N of the cartshed and entrance to the Plas.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Ruined outbuilding of uncertain date and purpose. It was known as the Hen Gapel before the Misses Keating bought the Plas in the mid C20, but Miss Keating's surmise that it might have been a recusant chapel of the C17 is unsupported. However the only other theory is that it was an outbuilding used briefly as a chapel or Sunday School in the early C19. The massive masonry and gabled rear windows suggest a pre C19 date. Linked by a wall, that was part of a roofed building, to the cart-shed to S.
Exterior
Outbuilding, rubble stone, roofless and missing N end wall. E front has tall centre door with steps within and the jambs of what seem to be three upper windows of different sill heights, the lintels lost. To left a long window, the sill at some two-thirds height of door, over door there may have been a square window under eaves, mostly gone, but with splayed reveals unlike other openings, and to right a window with sill at door-head level. Full height S gable wall. Rear wall is built against bank and has centre and N windows with slab-lintels and small gables over. N end may have been demolished for later use as a cart-shed.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as part of the group of outbuildings at Plas-yn-Rhiw, of group value with the cart-shed to which it is linked by a wall.
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